A new Twitter scam that has taken off, and this article is here to help you stay away from it. Don’t click on any Obama news until you read this.

Twitter users are being bombarded with tons of direct messages which contain links to spoof CNBC website which shows you how to make tons of money while sitting at home.

Twitter has been a target of lot of spam messages of late, but the most recent one’s are pretty dangerous phishing attacks and can allow a spammer access to your Twitter username and password. Most recently Twitter phishing attacks have spread through DM messages like “You Seen What This Person is Saying About You Terrible Things” and “Somebody is Saying Real Bad Rumors About You”.

Last month Twitter users were attacked using a DM scam where users received direct messages from people they know saying “You Seen What This Person is Saying About You Terrible Things”. The Twitter Scam affected several users who went on to click on the accompanying link and then entered their Twitter username and password on the phishing website.

We have been seeing a lot of Facebook Scams these days, however, it looks like Twitter is also being attacked by users with a lot of scam messages. Unlike Facebook most of the Twitter scam messages spread through direct messages and are usually phishing attacks.

Twitter users are being hit by a new phishing attack where affected users are sending DMs to their friends, which contain links to fake website that looks exactly like the Twitter login page.

Since the death of the most wanted criminal and the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, there have been several scams and phishing attacks spreading on Facebook and Twitter, which claimed to show a leaked “death video” of the terrorist.

There is widespread messages on Twitter asking users to not click on links such as “click verify”. There are several variants of this rogue and many people are reporting it as TwitVerify, TwitVerification and Profile Spy.

Free iPad Twitter mentions are a scam. Pretty ladies sending you @replies saying that you can win an iPad is a Twitter spam, don’t click on those links.

Yes we all want to know who is visiting our profile pages, however don’t yet fall for that trap in the form of Twitviewer which claims to show you which users have visited your twitter profile.

Ok, more scam alerts for Twitter, we are doing this just to make sure that whoever uses twitter is aware of the scam that people who use twitter face everyday, something that makes twitter a really really stupid service for many who are new to it.